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ERIC Number: EJ1440363
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 31
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1052-5629
EISSN: EISSN-1552-6658
Introducing a Problem-Posing Protocol to Encourage Management Students' Reflections on Sustainability Premises
Carlos Jonathan Santos; Janette Brunstein; Mark Edward Walvoord
Journal of Management Education, v48 n5 p856-886 2024
The goal of this article is to examine and develop problem-posing case study teaching methods to promote business students' reflections on their premises around sustainability practices. Literature on transformative learning in sustainability informed our hypothesis that problem-posing instead of problem-solving case study teaching would yield greater incidences of students' premise reflections at the deepest level. For our quasi-experimental design, undergraduate students at a business school were presented with a teaching case of corporate sustainability then half were given problem-solving prompts for critical reflection while the other half were given problem-posing prompts. Resultant responses were classified to expose differences in the nature and levels of reflection between these two groups. This pedagogical research indicated that the problem-posing group reached deeper levels of reflections, though further research is needed to better understand this phenomenon. We advocate for the utility of a problem-posing approach in sustainability education. This study contributes a problem-posing protocol for business schools, curricula, and professors, as well as suggestions for further research for theoretical understanding of problem posing for transformative learning in sustainability.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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